4.Spirits in prison. There is an allusion to I Peter, iii.
10.Of mine. He calls her so because she had been placed in his
care. Cf. ii. 2. 23 fol. above.
11.Flames. The folios have "flawes" or "flaws;" but it is probably
a misprint for flames, which Davenant substituted. Cf Ham. iii. 4 83:

"To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,
And melt in her own fire."

26.Offenceful. The 1st folio misprints "offence full."
30.Lest. The reading of the 4th folio; the earlier folios have "least,"
which Coll. and V. retain.
31.As that. For the reason that, because that. Tyrwhitt puts it thus: "lest you repent (not so much of your fault, as it is an evil) as that, etc."
33.Spare heaven. "That is, spare to offend heaven" (Malone). Pope reads 'seek heaven," and the Coll. MS. "serve heaven." Sr. conjectures "appease heaven."
36.There rest. "Keep yourself in this temper" (Johnson).
39.Grace go with you! D. gives these words to Juliet (Kitson's conjecture).
40.Law. The folios have "love;" corrected by Hanmer. "Neither her love nor its consequences had any effect upon her life; but the law in question, declaring, as we learn in the old tale on which the play is
founded, that the man who broke it 'should lose his head, and the woman offender should ever after be infamously noted,' thus did respite her 'a life whose very comfort' was 'a dying horror'" (W.). Some editors retain "love," and Tollet explains the passage thus with that reading: "O love, that is injurious in expediting Claudio's death, and that respites me
a life which is a burden to me worse than death!"